During the meeting, the attendees review the results of the product acceptance reviews and tests that are reported in
the Iteration Assessment. Using the product acceptance criteria from the Product Acceptance Plan, the group determines
the following:
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Physical audit results - has the customer received all the project deliverables?
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Functional audit results - did the results of the product acceptance reviews and test demonstrate that the product
satisfies its requirements?
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Has any required customer training been completed?
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If required, has on-site installation been successfully completed?
At the end of the meeting, the reviewers should make their approval decision. If some of the product acceptance
criteria have not been satisfied, the customer may decide to accept the product conditionally upon certain corrective
actions being taken. In this situation you may choose to initiate a new iteration to deal with the issues arising.
The result of the Project Acceptance Review can be one of the following:
Project Accepted
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The customer representative agrees that the project deliverables have satisfied the acceptance criteria, and
the customer takes possession of the delivered product an support materials.
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Conditional Acceptance
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The customer representative agrees to accept the results of the project, subject to the completion of specified
corrective actions.
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Project Not Accepted
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The project fails to achieve the product acceptance criteria, and requires additional work and another project
acceptance cycle to be carried out.
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If the project is not accepted by the customer, the project team should schedule the corrective actions that have been
identified, and re-submit a revised Iteration Assessment for a follow-up review. In the case of a "Conditional
Acceptance", this assessment only need confirm that the specified corrective actions have been completed. However, if
the project was "not accepted", the full suite of product acceptance reviews and tests should be performed.
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